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JESSE
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STOP DESTROYING BAJA´S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
Listen up Chilango, American, Canadian, European developers, architects, builders, STOP BUILDING Mickey Mouse interpretations of Baja Architecture!!!
You destroyed Cancun for ever, what makes you think your chesseball designs are going to work here???
It is not what tourist want, it is not what locals want, and it is not helping to preserve and even promote a great architectural style that when done
properly, is simple, beautiful, and unique.
This is NOT Coyoacan
This is NOT Barcelona
This is NOT North Africa
I am tired of looking at all of these Chesseball renovations-constructions, that have nothing to do with Baja.
Heres what i am talking about this is NOT Baja:
Now, pay close attention, this IS Baja:
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/2509916722_8ab4218fc4.jpg?v=0[/img]
[img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/430369642_e7e56ecb47.jpg?v=0[/img]
Try to be less minimalistic, and more simple. Try to get rid of those cliche bold yellow, pink, and blue colors from central Mexico, and go for earth
tones. Use wood, old wood. Dont´t be lazy, and do something more interesting than copying what you saw back home. Baja architecture is less like an
elaborate Mole and more like grilled Lobster with Olive oil, its more simple, yet elegant. Baja style is sort of a blend of NeoClassical Tropical with
Mission Architecture.
If you can´t figure it out, go somewhere else and screw their heritage.
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David K
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Don't hold back Jesee.. tell us how you really feel! 
Baja was popular just being undeveloped... to change something that 'works' (ie. to fix it, if it isn't broken) makes no sense, does it!?
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OLIGUACOMOLE
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Agree agree agree......but what kind of cheese is a cheesball????
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woody with a view
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a cheezball is usually stinky, "from under." AKA quesa frumunda.
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JESSE
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Cheeseball
Coming from the word "cheesy", "lame". Just think of a greasy cheeseball.
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mtgoat666
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I like these:
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
Listen up Chilango, American, Canadian, European developers, architects, builders, STOP BUILDING Mickey Mouse interpretations of Baja Architecture!!!
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Don't stop there. The abominations that have been designed and built by Mexican architects on the coast between Rosarito and Ensenada, in the effort
to develop a unique style are stomach turning. Some of them look like huge bird cages and others should be issued "Arch Violations" for their overuse
of the form. The Minarets are like skin eruptions on an otherwise pretty face and the meaningless little rooms stacked atop functional buildings make
no sense. They're the most ugly thing that could happen to a beautiful coastline.
I've seem other work here that is scary. Rooms on a single floor that are 45 degrees to the rest of the rooms. Rooflines that look like they fell
out of the sky. Most of these 'designers" seem to be trained in Mexicali and the school of architecture there should be deemed off-limits by the
Decency Police.
What ever happened to the Barrigan school of thought and design? What's being produced today, he wouldn't walk into. Maybe because he wasn't really
an architect but, an engineer. In spite of that, he remains one of Mexico's most highly honored designers. He's turning in his grave.
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JESSE
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mtgoat666,
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!! 
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ELINVESTIG8R
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Here is the Baja I love!
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DENNIS
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The most appealing element of this house is the shadows. They don't last forever, do they?
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JESSE
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I love the Homedepot like inspiration.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
I love the Homedepot like inspiration. |
Interior by Pier Six. 
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k-rico
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I like them all, new and old. The top one in Jesse's photos is my wife's kind of place, she's Mexican. I could hang around there. I'd get rid of the
stick covering tho and add a pool table somewhere.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
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The most appealing element of this house is the shadows. They don't last forever, do they? |
Oh my Gawd...Something just occured to me about this foto. Not only is there one residential abortion pictured but, the shadow says there's one more
just like it just a bit closer to the sun.
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k-rico
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"Oh my Gawd...Something just occured to me about this foto. Not only is there one residential abortion pictured but, the shadow says there's one more
just like it just a bit closer to the sun. "
There is a 1 centimeter set-back rule in Mexico. That way you can fill in the gap with duct tape. 
[Edited on 8-19-2009 by k-rico]
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vandenberg
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Hey Jesse,
Maybe you approve of this "AUTHENTIC MEXICAN VILLAGE" at Loreto Bay.
![008 [].JPG - 49kB](https://forums.bajanomad.com/files.php?pid=443374&aid=24331 "008 [].JPG - 49kB")
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
mtgoat666,
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!! |
Yah... good one!
He is from the group who can't help change things that are already good... or try and fix stuff that isn't broken...
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
"AUTHENTIC MEXICAN VILLAGE" |
No way. Absolutly not authentic. I don't see even one parked car with the hood up.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ELINVESTI8
Here is the Baja I love!
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They moved the fireplace! 
Rancho el Metate, near the destroyed mission visita site of San Juan de Dios.
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k-rico
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Hey Jesse,
Maybe you approve of this "AUTHENTIC MEXICAN VILLAGE" at Loreto Bay. |
Naw, no place to park a wrecked car or store garbage in front.
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